Those Stones Have a Name: Ballast The crushed stone found under many railroad tracks is called ballast. It forms the bed that ...

Travis Terry lives in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in Queens about 5 minutes from an abandoned rail line. He describes the tracks, last used in 1962, as a “blight” plagued by illegal dumping. “It’s ...

A family’s night out turned terrifying after their car became stuck on railroad tracks in South Florida—just moments before a ...

Brian Owens' hardest days at work are the ones where he speaks with the emergency workers who are first on the scene when a multi-ton train and a human body collide. "Generally, you're picking up ...

Beneath the layers of the Southwest Trail, a 65-mile project connecting Hot Springs to Little Rock, lies a section of train ...